The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-08

G. w. McLarrine, of Quincy, has peach
tree about one year old, the body OF which
is now two inches in diameter and the tree
is some ten feet in height.
At DeFuniak Spring arrangements are
now all completed for the building of the
new court house and the building Will be a
great ornament to the town.
Owing to the extreme cold spring and dry
weather bean shipments from Lake City are
at least two weeks late. Shipments, how
ever, are now going forward.
Reuben B. Brooks, one of the intelligent
colored men Of Ocala, will start paper in
Ocala shortly in the interest of his race 1t
will be known as the Ocala Ledger.
The young oranges on the trees arounp
Palatka are looking splendidly, and are
growing very nicely. Some of the trees are
fairly loaded with the young fruit.
j. T. McMurray has disposed of his stock
in the First Natoaal Bank of Orlando to
Dwight D. Porter, and the latter gentleman
has been elected one of the directors.
At Vernon the Recorder of Deeds has re-
corded over 50, 600 deeds of land OF the ST.
Andrews Bay syndicate alone The posi-
ton is now very profitable and will doubt
less be sought after by some.
The Episcopal Council at Gainesville fin
ished its work Friday afternoon and adj
iourned sine die. The next session will be
held in Jacksonville, but a special session
will be held in Tallahassee in February next.
The drawback to the town of Dade City,
caused by claims to several valuable tracts
Of land lying in town, has been removed.
Property owners have secured quit claim
deeds, which places the lands in good con-
dition.
During the past season there were nearly
5000 arrivals at the Peninsular Hotel in
Tavaras AHnUathei iOplu1inu fhe AXE
Dora Hotel and Butler House, there must
have been nearly 1000 arrivals in TavareS
alone
The Port Royal has been routed out of its
bed in the mud of the st. Johns, and is now
balanced on chains. The old steamer seems
loath to depart from its resting place, and
it is vet uncertain what the ultimate result
will be.
At Chipley wool is now coming. rapidly
in and merchants are paying over ~25c. per
pound The fleece is reported heavy and of
good quality. There is as much wool han
died here as there is at any point in West
Florida.
Mr.. Blake, the Maine banker who bought
Ocala city bonds of Mr. Dunn some weeks
ago, died recently in Boston of pneumonia,
contracted on his journey home. He was
very wealthy and left a nephew over
s., 000,o 900.
The railroad meeting in the court house
at Brooksville, Saturday, was pretty well
attended and additional subscriptions
amounting to over $500 were raised. The
prospect of raising the total amount
required is not encouraging.
G. N Shepard, of ST. Augustine, has a
round skin of what he called the black
shouldered kite, rare bird, and never seen
but once in a life time. He has sent it on
to the Smithsonian Institute for identified
ton. The bird was killed down near Marco.
Last Saturday evening the surveyors of
the Caloosahatchie got down as far as
Beautiful Island. They will survey the
river to the mouth and out as far as the
outer buoy at Sanibel Island. One of the
men AYERS that they found 800 more bends
i'll the Caloosahatchie than are down on the
| maps
Capt. George A. Libby, of the steamer Dis
patch, is on a visit to the granite hills of
New Hampshire. He says a new steamer is
to be built by stock company, so feet long
! and 80 feet wide, which will ply on Lake
| Dora He will have charge of the new boat,
which will be completed in time for next
seasons business. NtlUN
The work at the HauloyerT canal has been
| completed, and now all boats drawing five
! feet or less can go through from Daytona to
Melbourne on the Indian river. The steam
dredge Chester is now at work between the
Narrows and Lake Width, Dir. Fox, the
contractor, says that it cannot be completed
under three years.
I Barlow will have a barbecue next Thurs.
day, the occasion being the laying of the
corner stone of the Summerlin Institute by
the Grand Lodge of Masons of Florida.
| Everybody is invited to come and eat and
drink. There will be plenty of good barbe
cued edibles, music entertainments, and a
jollifcation in general.
Mrs. E. B. Duffey. of Bonnie Lake, neal
Barlow, was awakened the other night by 6
noise in her hen house. She went out to SCI
what the row was about and found an opos
sum getting away with O full-grown hen
She grabbed it by the neck and put it in g
box for the night. 1t was a female, witt
seven or eight young ones in its pouch.
A number of the finest shad have beer
taken in Iamonia Lake recently. Shad ii
this lake is something of a curiosity, anc
their presence is explained by the fact tina
Oclzlockonee river overfows into the lake
The government stocked Ocklockonee with
shad some time ago, and it is from this worl
that the Waltons, of Iamonia, are reapine
their harvest
1t was rumored upon the streets of Or
lando, Tuesday, that Capt. G. f. Pierce hac
purchased the remaining lots between tn,
Kedney building and the Jail lot ON Orang,
avenue, which were owned by Messrs. Cur
tbs & Weber, and that this ground woulc
be covered by an addition to the new build
ing, which would give this new brick hote
about 125 rooms.
The hook and ladder truck purchased By
the City Council of Tallahassee is expected
to arrive in few days. Besides other neces
sary appliances two six-gallon chemical ex
tinguishers are attached to the truck. TIL,
managers of the Florida Railway anC
Navigation Company have agreed to trans
port the truck from Jacksonville to ITALIA
hassee free of charge.
Senator Costa exhibited in Tallahassee
some of his well-preserved relics of the Con
federate States navy, of which he was
gallant member He has his canvass cham
mock and bag" remarkably well kept ant
the inevitable clothes brush with sc. S. n
branded on it's back. Mr. Costa servec
bravely throughout the late misunderstood
ing and saw much and glorious service.
The friends of Henry Virgins, who wa
convicted at the late term of court in Palat
ka, of murder in the first degree and sen
fenced to be hanged, have giveE notice tina
they viii apply to the Governor of the Stat
to have the sentence 'remitted to confine
menr for life" Virgins has had two fair
impartial and exhaustive trials in tn
courts. and in each trial the verdict was th,
same.
At the annual meeting Of the Tropica
| Construction COmpanv held at naynres n,